Example sentences of "kind of [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Sophia was not usually the kind of person to say disturbing things . |
| 2 | On this ‘ scientific ’ view of standard setting , the design of consents to discharge polluted water is to be based on a dispassionate consideration of the amount and kind of pollution load any watercourse can bear . |
| 3 | To undertake this kind of management requires considerable knowledge and close personal relations between central and field workers , qualities only bred of confidence and maturity of judgement which can only come with time . |
| 4 | Why did this kind of ideology have sufficient attractions as an appeal or persuasion to inform the language of the many antislavery associations and contribute to widespread popular petitioning against the slave trade and slavery ? |
| 5 | ‘ This kind of cassava produces 20 times as much food as an ordinary one , ’ Safarimoja says proudly . |
| 6 | One implication of the neutral theory is that we can use molecular changes as a kind of clock to measure evolutionary events . |
| 7 | Advocates of this kind of approach take everyday experiences ( like cooking ) and use them to clarify those words which we use to explain mathematics and to vivify the abstractions which are central to the subject . |
| 8 | A group of pavements which shows this kind of affinity has many traits which are often understood as essential characteristics of a school of mosaic/mosaicists : the sharing of a common mode of representation , the predominance of this mode in a restricted geographical area , and the presence of craftsmen , ( perhaps of different abilities ) who were working " together " . |
| 9 | And what kind of dope produced that kind of idiotic but vivid hallucination ? |
| 10 | The picture which emerges from this kind of work highlights collective action and collective advantage , but often says little about whether all the individuals involved in this enterprise benefited from it in equal measure . |
| 11 | This kind of intelligence produces high speed copy times of around 50 seconds for format , copy and verify on a 360k drive . |
| 12 | The worst kind of burn gives painful blisters and general skin damage within about an hour after exposure . |
| 13 | This kind of evidence led many researchers to suggest that simplified input of the type found in ‘ Motherese ’ might be implicated in language learning . |
| 14 | That kind of policing requires good police intelligence and first-class training . |
| 15 | This kind of action needs precise timing and director Mike Alfreds and his 14 strong cast provide the elegantly energetic execution required . |
| 16 | This kind of action needs precise timing and director Mike Alfreds and his 14 strong cast provide the elegantly energetic execution that is required . |
| 17 | What kind of redress does either kind of prisoner have against these conditions ? |
| 18 | This kind of analysis sees Japanese uniqueness begin from the basic subversion of individualism into collectivism and traces the implications in cultural patterns which are distinctively different from Western ones . |
| 19 | A third kind of analysis conceives some sections of the middle class ( technicians , managers , engineers , professional employees in the public service and in private industry ) either as constituting an important part of a ‘ new working class ’ which is likely to participate in its own way in a refashioned socialist movement ( Mallet , 1975 ) , or as forming one element — alongside the old industrial working class — in a new class , which is becoming involved in a new type of struggle , directed against those who control the institutions of economic and political decision making , and who reduce it to a condition , not of misery or oppression , but of restricted and dependent participation in the major public affairs of society ( Touraine , 1971a ) . |
| 20 | R. Benge , in a valuable discussion of select bibliographies , notes that this kind of listing offers various degrees of helpfulness to its user : |
| 21 | This kind of flotation to raise large capital sums has already been seen in cases such as Bairstow Eves and Connells . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most satisfying kind of learning combines this sort of statistical observation with later analysis . |
| 23 | These beliefs about what low attainers can not do dictate and reflect the kind of learning experience these pupils have . |
| 24 | Against the backdrop of apparent economic stability and increasing affluence the idea that the major industrial nations were at some kind of break-point held considerable appeal . |
| 25 | This kind of guidance places excessive faith in professional intuition . |
| 26 | Whether we know it or not , we are all familiar with a kind of information called analogue information . |
| 27 | Leaves on the line and the wrong kind of snow leave this train undaunted — it has never been more than 10 minutes late . |
| 28 | As the following examples indicate , there is considerable divergence among the relationships indicated by expressions which have been classified as apposition markers : Burton-Roberts ( forthcoming ) comments that the differences between these expressions shows that apposition is " an extremely loose kind of relation subsuming such functions as gloss , elucidation , reformulation , exemplification , and even correction " . |
| 29 | It 's ideal because this kind of driving requires total concentration and utter commitment . |
| 30 | It is only fair to add that this kind of language finds less favour with some modern experimenters . |